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17.08.09

"The problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them."

headline:::A.Einstein

Jacque Fresco is an industrial engineer, architectural designer, social engineer, and futurist based in Florida. His optimistic view and desire to create solutions that maximally benefit the greatest number of people stem from his formative years during the Great Depression.
//Lifeboat-Foundation



"What is needed is the intelligent management of Earth's resources. If we really wish to put an end to our ongoing international and social problems we must eventually declare Earth and all of its resources as the common heritage of all the world's people."//Jacque Fresco//Forbes

"All too often, the Futurists are involved in business or how to make a buck in the future, which are the aims of an individual, self-centered, predatory society where the bottom line is profit; not the well-being of people."//Meta-Magazine




"Taking advantage of the latest technologies, Fresco has planned the way to beat the scarcity of resources by using a totally renewable energies such as the geothermal, controlled fusion, solar, photovoltaic, wind, and designing energy-efficient cities able to provide all citizens with the highest healthcare and education. Most of the work, in Fresco’s vision, would be carried out by machines, as it is already, but unlike now, people would have more leisure time for themselves."//Herald de Paris



"As artificial intelligence rapidly develops, machines will be assigned the tasks of complex decision making in industrial, military, and governmental affairs," Fresco believes. "This would not imply a takeover by machines. Instead, it will be a gradual transfer of decision-making processes to machine intelligence as the next phase of social evolution." //allbusiness

23.07.09

"If you don't support the community, the community won't support you."

What's most important to me is that Neuromancer
is about the present. It's not really about an imagined
future. It's a way of trying to come to terms with the
awe and terror inspired in me by the world in which we
live.
That's because the past is cycling back to you for another look. What has been old may become new again. Are you ready to experience something resembling time travel?
There is more to writing than putting words next to each other, and there is more to writing hypertext than throwing together a bunch of links.
"You cannot be a good writer of serious fiction if you are not depressed."
- linking the people who change the world -
the following references to what I consider some of the most interesting resources
In the grim future of most cyberpunk, the message taken back from the night journey is seldom cheering, but it does move beyond the "disintegrating society" to a realization that has the potential for renewal in both the individual and society.
The really amazing thing is, we can. This really is a possible future, if only we work for it.
I hope my emphasis on content over style makes up for the lack of glitter
Cryptography
PGP Home Page
The mind is like a computer but it is not a computer.

www.pgp.net

Transhumanist Resources

Storming the reality studio

The Key News Articles

16.07.09

Note to thyself




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Cognitive Sciences Osnabrück


The Cognitive Science Society, Inc. brings together researchers from many fields who hold a common goal: understanding the nature of the human mind.//CSS




The world needs critical thinkers now!


Welcome to Principia Cybernetica Web

Cyberpunk Cyberstream


Tags / cyberpunk

6 Future Mods for Our Minds and Bodies

rezzing.grid



The Alt.Cyberpunk.Chatsubo Anthology

What is Cyberpunk?

CyberCulture Zone


Attitude is no substitute for competence. On the other hand, at least cyberpunks are excited about the right things and properly respectful of hacking talent in those who have it. The general consensus is to tolerate them politely in hopes that they'll attract people who grow into being true hackers.//catb

Post-cyberpunk



Culture Jamming 2.0


The End of Cyberspace


"Care of the self, unity and peace, is the message inscribed on the tomb of Daphnis. Peace and unity, the freedoms of a ruling class – to be a law unto one’s self: that’s nobility, even (and especially) amongst the poorest peoples on the earth; the ideal must be created, and often, fashioned with a hammer."//emale

You cannot erase a Malevich Square”

14.07.09

Mortalskin



Is there a deliberate effort by the government to dumb down the masses? The statement is hard to prove but there exists a great amount of data proving that the ruling elite not only tolerates, but effectively introduces policies that have a detrimental effect on the physical and mental health of the population.//Vigilant Citizen






  • I believe pornography is at the center of the biggest cultural revolution of our century.//Lasse Braun

The Marching Morons


13.02.09

Valentine's Coke'n'porn wisdom




You are data! the lifehouse GRID…

"I realized I didn’t need all of this shit and began giving away, selling, or throwing out most of what I owned. It is an exhilarating feeling to give your property away."///DevanSangliani

Cocaine cheaper than lager and wine as drug price falls by half//dailytelegraph


but: "In relation to cocaine the average purity at street level has declined continuously for a number of years, from 51% in 2003 to 34% in 2007."
overrated drug anyway.... to stop smoking weed gives me a better rush...

Report: UK teens spend 5% of time online looking at porn//arstechnica


"Break down that one hour and 40 minutes of surfing into days and it turns out that UK teenagers spend all of fourteen minutes a day looking at naughty bits of flesh in motion.":::::::::::::::::g up to 4 times, I guess.......



"Valentine’s Day is a Christian corruption of a pagan festival involving werewolves, blood and fucking."//WarrenEllis